Word: wodehousean
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Langguth wastes little time trying to decide whether Saki was a literary butterfly who finally tried to stamp or some kind of shrike with a sense of humor. The book notes the Waugh-like gift for comic names (Loona Bimberton, Septimus Brope), the Wildean wit, the Wodehousean way with the featherheaded fauna of the West End and the country house party, the surprise endings self-consciously borrowed from O'Henry...
...plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver can spray about with a garlic gun." In her seventh novel, Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing) has abandoned high comedy for low farce, swapped her Waughspish satire of manners for Wodehousean huggermugger...
...MURDER-Gown Holt-Simon and Schuster ($2). Death threats appear on scraps of Wagnerian scores, followed by murder in an English country house. The killing is suavely solved by ex-Scotland Yard Inspector Joel Saber and his wisecracking assistant, Ritzy. A bright horror tale peopled with cheerfully wacky Wodehousean characters...
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